McIlroy closes the hole from the green

Hole 7 is a par4, 453 yards long. McIlroy plays 297 yards into the rough on the right side of the fairway. It took 142 yards to get to the hole on the second shot, but he overswinged the ball, sending it 174 yards and back into the rough behind the green. But from there, he suddenly finished the job.

McIlroy scores a birdie from the rough behind the green

McIlroy entered the game from hole 1, scoring two birdies, including hole 7, and no bogey during the first half of the round. However, in the second half of the course, the Northern Ireland golfer was in a flurry of form, starting from the 10th hole. After bogey this hole, he took turns par-birdie-bogey in the next paragraph. The remaining five holes, the player born in 1989 considered a breakeven with three par points, bogey hole 16 due to two putts through 4.8 meters into the birdie on hole 18, 2.4 meters away.

Rory McIlroy hole 18 round 1

McIlroy finished the last putt in the twilight, just as the organizers blew the whistle to stop the round because it was dark. At that time, there were still 36 players who had not finished their work because the opening time was 90 minutes later than scheduled because of the thick fog in the morning. With 70 strokes in the opening leg, McIlroy scored -1, temporarily standing at T11. In this match, he reached 330.9 yards at two points, and the organizers recorded the average distance of the first hole. The whole round, he hit six of the 14 fairways, went to the green on a 12-hole standard and used 28 putts.

McIlroy owns four majors in 19 PGA Tour championships, of which the most recent title was the Wells Fargo Championship on May 11, after 553 days of thirst for the Cup. He holds the top of the world golf rankings (OWGR) eight times with a total time of 106 weeks.

Quoc Huy